The Pig-Faced Lady, with fur muff, famous in London circa 1815. “The Wonderful Miss Atkinson. Born in Dublin, Ireland, with a 20,000 pound fortune, and is fed out of a silver trough.” Handcoloured lithograph after a stipple engraving by Robert Cooper after a portrait by George Morland from Henry Wilson and James Caulfield’s Book of Wonderful Characters, Memoirs and Anecdotes, of Remarkable and Eccentric Persons in all ages and countries, John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly, London, 1869.

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